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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with green text on a pink background.

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with green text on a pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text on right
  • pink background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. The background is a light blue and white snowy landscape. To the right of the bear, there is green text on a pink background that reads "forget dogs" at the top and "polar bears r a girlsBEST FRIEND" at the bottom. The text is in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with green text on a pink background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070726165427545016437
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear snow pink background
  • forget dogs polar bears girlsBEST FRIEND
  • pixelated polar bear sitting
  • green text pink background

Visible Text

  • forget dogs
  • polar bears
  • r a girlsBEST FRIEND

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • sitting
  • snow
  • pink background
  • green text
  • pixelated
  • forget dogs
  • polar bears r a girlsBEST FRIEND

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070726165427545016437
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
7a969b0fb67966ab
SHA-256
7a969b0fb67966ab34e269cbd8345ad147eebb02c7012376616c05f6830dee3a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1066
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111446

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with green text on a pink background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,131 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 688

Review tags

  • sitting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • snow (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sitting

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • light gray
  • white
  • black
  • light blue

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text on right
  • pink background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. The background is a light blue and white snowy landscape. To the right of the bear, there is green text on a pink background that reads "forget dogs" at the top and "polar bears r a girlsBEST FRIEND" at the bottom. The text is in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with green text on a pink background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070726165427545016437
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • forget dogs polar bears girlsBEST FRIEND
  • pixelated polar bear sitting
  • green text pink background

Objects

  • snow

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • forget dogs
  • polar bears
  • r a girlsBEST FRIEND

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • sitting
  • snow
  • pink background
  • green text
  • pixelated
  • forget dogs
  • polar bears r a girlsBEST FRIEND
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Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20070726165427545016437
Archive entry
20070726165427545016437.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070726165427545016437.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070726165427545016437.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016